Draws Quote by Geert Wilders

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

— Neil Simon

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

— Colson Whitehead

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New…

— Lajos Kossuth

It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the…

— Michael Bloomberg

In order for New York to not only get back to where we were, but to finally fulfill our potential as the greatest city…

— Isaac Wright Jr

New York is for everybody; it's for the poor, it's for the middle-class, it's for the wealthy. We can't punish any one group and…

— John Catsimatidis

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on…

— Michael Bloomberg

No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.

— Zohran Mamdani

That's what New York is all about, pulling together.

— Joey Heatherton

No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless…

— Rudyard Kipling

Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.

— George Pataki

Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called…

— Rudy Giuliani